The Kenai City Council exercised their newly enacted powers to cancel meetings earlier this month and there will be no regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday, November 18.
Residents of Kenai voted overwhelmingly in October to allow council members to cancel regular meetings, but concerns surfaced this month when the idea to cancel tomorrow’s meeting was broached.
During council discussion on November 4, Bob Molloy stated he would rather reschedule the meeting but Tim Navarre said that can get too confusing.
Cm. Navarre: “So that’s the issue that I was trying to raise with confusion, with the Open Meetings Act. Notice of meetings and how they can get crunched together. Right now we have two weeks apart, the first meeting in any month is the first Wednesday and two weeks later is the next one. If you were to move that one up or whatever, or back, you’ll start running into the first meeting of the following month, or if you move it forward you’re running into the previous one.”
The meeting was cancelled because a majority of councillors along with other city administration who typically attend the council meetings were scheduled to be at the annual Alaska Municipal League conference in Anchorage this week.
Vice Mayor Brian Gabriel stated he does not want the council to get in the habit of canceling council meetings out of convenience and not due to emergencies.
The next regular Kenai City Council meeting will be at 6:00 pm, December 2 in the Kenai Council Chambers.